Just a few moments before its Capsaicin event at GDC 2016 show, AMD has officially announced its new dual-GPU flagship graphics card with two Fiji GPUs, the US $1499 priced Radeon Pro Duo.

As expected, AMD's newest dual-GPU flagship graphics card is based on two fully-enabled Fiji GPUs. Although AMD did not reveal the precise specifications of the Radeon Pro Duo, it is safe to assume that we are looking at a graphics card with 4096 Stream Processors 256 TMUs and 64 ROPs and 4GB of High Bandwidth Memory paired up with a 4096-bit memory interface, for each GPU.

As announced earlier, the Radeon Pro Duo packs 16 TFLOPS of compute performance. This also suggest that the GPU is set to work at up to 1000MHz, while memory remains at 1Gbps with effective memory bandwidth of 512GB/s. The Radeon Pro Duo comes with a liquid cooler, just like the Fury X and apparently only needs a 120/140mm radiator, which is also rather thick. It also needs three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors which suggest that we are looking at a card with TDP of up to 525W.

Although AMD has delayed the Radeon Pro Duo to line it up with virtual reality headset launch, the company is not specifically targeting the consumer market, but rather aims at VR content creation. Of course, delays could also be tied to driver development as it is hard to make those two GPUs work in Crossfire as we could see in recent games and wrote earlier.

AMD has announced that the Radeon Pro Duo will be available in early Q2 2016 and be priced at US $1499. While this is more than what you would pay for two Fury X graphics cards, this is a more compact solution and AMD is once again skipping the aggressive pricing and one again confirms that this is a developer/content creation graphics card rather than a consumer product.

More importantly, the newest tweet from Roy Taylor gave us a better look at the graphics card which is most definitely air-cooled. According to a report from Videocardz.com, should not be much bigger than the Radeon R9 380X. Earlier leaked pictures of the Fury X2 PCB also showed a shorter graphics card so this might be the real deal. Surprisingly, it appears that AMD managed to air-cool both the GPUs with a larger blower-style fan.

AMD has previously delayed the launch of its next-gen dual-GPU flagship graphics card and it is currently scheduled to launch sometime in Q2 this year, just in time for users to pair it up with upcoming VR headsets from HTC and Oculus.

Currently being the Corporate Vice President of Alliances at AMD, Roy Taylor, has revealed that the upcoming Radeon R9 Fury X2, also known as the Gemini dual-GPU graphics card, will have 12 TFLOPS of single-precision compute performance. While the previous Radeon R9 295 X2 packed an impressive 11.5 TFLOPS of SP compute performance, the upcomng Radeon R9 Fury X2 will not be that much more powerful but it will be around 40 percent more efficient as it will use around 375W of power, significantly lower compared to 500W for the Radeon R9 295 X2.

Of course, Taylor might have been talking about the custom Radeon R9 Fury X2 inside the Falcon Northwest Tiki SFF PC, which might be under-clocked, so it is still a big unknown.

Spotted by Wccftech.com, Roy Taylor said that AMD has delivered on a promise to make the world's most powerful small computer for developers and take two highest-end GPUs and put them inside a tiny box, providing 12 TFLOPS of performance inside the Tiki SFF PC.

AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X2 dual-GPU graphics card is expected to launch sometime in Q2 this year, or just in time as first VR headsets start to ship to consumers.

We already wrote that AMD has delayed its dual-GPU Fiji-based graphics card, codename Gemini, from its earlier late 2015 launch date, AMD has now confirmed it, adding VR headsets late launch as the reason behind the delay.

As you already know, AMD has originally scheduled the launch for its dual-GPU Gemini graphics card for late 2015 but has decided to delay it. We already wrote about the delay earlier and back then we heard that there are several factors that caused the delay. One of those reasons is that AMD did not want to put any pressure on the Radeon Fury and Fury X Christmas sales as it would cause a price drop. Another reason was the software part as it is quite hard to make a dual-GPU graphics card to scale well.

Today, AMD has confirmed the delay to a couple of sites, including Anandtech.com, where the company added yet another reason for the delay. We always knew that AMD targets VR-gaming with its upcoming dual-GPU graphics card with two Fiji GPUs and 8GB of HBM, and it simply makes sense that the company has decided to postpone the launch until VR headsets, like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are available.

AMD also noted that it has already shipped working samples of Fiji Gemini to varius B2B customers and that initial reaction is very positive. One of those customers is the head at DICE, Johan Andersson, who already teased the Gemini at its Twitter profile.

"The product schedule for Fiji Gemini had initially been aligned with consumer HMD availability, which had been scheduled for Q415 back in June. Due to some delays in overall VR ecosystem readiness, HMDs are now expected to be available to consumers by early Q216. To ensure the optimal VR experience, we’re adjusting the Fiji Gemini launch schedule to better align with the market.Working samples of Fiji Gemini have shipped to a variety of B2B customers in Q415, and initial customer reaction has been very positive."

While it might be delayed, we are quite sure that AMD will not miss a chance to show it off at CES 2016 show, which kicks off on January 6th, and it will most likely be a part of some Oculus Rift demo. The official launch, however, might come at a later date as we still do not have precise dates for the launch of the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive. Oculus has announced that it will open pre-orders early next year and that the headset is still on track to launch in Q1 2016 while April was mentioned as the possible date for the HTC Vive launch.

In any case, the 2016 will be the year for virtual reality and AMD has a graphics card ready for it.

According to the latest report, it appears that Nvidia is on the verge of releasing a new dual-GPU graphics card that will place two GM200 GPUs on the same PCB.

According to a report from Wccftech.com, the upcoming dual-GPU graphics card has not only been already showcased to a couple of select members of the press at a secret briefing in New York City, but some of those have managed to score a sample and are wrapping up their reviews.

According to the same report, the upcoming flagship graphics card could bear the GTX Titan branding. Rather surprising piece of information is that the upcoming dual-GPU graphics card will not be based on the GM204 GPU, which was behind the GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics card but rather two GM200 GPUs, the same one that is behind both the GTX 980 Ti and the GTX Titan X graphics card.

The precise specifications are still unknown as it is unclear if we are looking at two fully enabled GM200 GPUs with 3072 CUDA cores each, or the cut-down version with 2816 CUDA cores. Since the GTX 980 Ti has a TDP of 250W, it will be quite interesting to see the final TDP on such dual-GPU graphics card and the final clocks for each GPU.

It is also quite surprising that Nvidia managed to keep such graphics card a secret for so long and although it was quite obvious that Nvidia will release a dual-GPU graphics card in order to counter AMD's upcoming dual Fiji GPU based graphics card, we did not expect it to be ready so soon.

The price of the upcoming dual-GPU graphics card from Nvidia, which is also the most important part of information, is still unknown but if these rumors are true, we should see it quite soon.

The wait it finally over and AMD has now officially announced and launched its newest dual-GPU flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 295X2. Based on two 28nm Hawaii XT GPUs which is the same one found behind the R9 290X graphics card, the new Radeon R9 295X2 is a proper performance beast. In order to keep the GPUs well cooled, AMD has teamed up with Asetek for the all new Project Hydra hybrid liquid+air cooler and according to reviews posted around the net, they definitely did a great job, both performance- and cooler-wise.

The card is definitely not aimed at those looking to game on sub-UHD/4K resolutions, with the exception of 5760x1080 Eyefinity multi-display configurations. After all new Radeon R9 295X2 features two fully-enabled 28nm Hawaii XT GCN2 GPUs, so it is overkill for 1440p or 1600p. Each of the GPU packs 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TMUs and 64 ROPs and each is connected to a 4GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 512-bit memory interface. The GPUs are interconnected via PLX PEX8747 PCI-Express gen 3.0 x48 bridge chip and each of the GPUs has its own 5+1-phase VRM design which draws power from the two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The new R9 259X2 features single DVI and four mini DisplayPort outputs, which makes it highly suitable for multi-display systems.

As noted earlier, in order to cope with 500W of heat coming from two Hawaii XT GPUs, AMD has teamed up with Asetek for Project Hydra and it looks like they did a great job, at least according to reviews. The Project Hydra is the so-called hybrid closed loop liquid cooler paired up with a single center placed fan. While the two pump/water blocks connected to a 120mm radiator takes care of the GPUs, the single 92mm placed fan takes care of the VRM, memory and the PLX bridge chip. The cooler does a great job as the R9 295X2 never throttles down and it does it without producing much noise. The temperature is kept at around 60°C under load so there is more room for reduced fan noise.

Currently and with a suggested price of US $1,499, the Radeon R9 295X2 is the fastest graphics card on the market and will be without any competition. While two R9 290X graphics card should cost around US $1100 (when the coin-mining price gouging actually stops), you still have to take the Asetek premium hybrid cooler into account, as well as the fact that two R9 290X will need more power connectors, will most likely produce more heat and will definitely be louder.

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 295X2 is the new king of the hill and easily takes away the performance crown. According to the first reviews, the performance is exactly the same as the one you would get with two R9 290X graphics card in Crossfire and, of course, it depends on actual driver Crossfire game optimizations. While Nvidia is preparing the US $3,000 priced Nvidia Titan Z, this one will be mostly limited to those looking for some serious compute performance and simply can't be considered as the competition to the R9 295X2, simply because of its price.

We overheard that the Radeon R9 295X2 will be a part of a new Never Settle bundle deal but currently there is no info on that one.

AMD has already teased its upcoming new dual-GPU graphics card, which will most likely be based on two 28nm Hawaii GPUs, by sending a rather interesting "dual" picture to select editors and today the rumor-mill has started working by suggesting that AMD could name it the Radeon R9 295X2.

The rumor comes from Dutch tech site BouweenPC.nl and in addition to a rather interesting name, the site also has some info regarding both the specs as well the cooler. According to BouweenPC.nl, the Hawaii GPUs will be clocked at no less than 1GHz which is quite an achievement for power hungry and hot Hawaii GPU. In order to make things work, the report is suggesting that AMD is developing a special hybrid air/liquid cooler which will take care of both GPUs, RAM as well as the VRM part of the upcoming dual-GPU graphics card.

The report compares the upcoming design with recently released ASUS ROG ARES II graphics card, which had a similar cooler design. If these rumors prove to be true, we are looking at a graphics card which will be far from plug-and-play as it will require certain amount of work to get the radiator mounted and thus it will be limited to enthusiasts and those with more hardware skills than average consumers. This also suggest that AMD might pull a "limited edition" move, which will certainly hype up the price and make the upcoming dual-GPU graphics card hard to find.

According to a fresh rumor coming from Chinese VR-Zone, Asus is working on a custom built dual-GPU Hawaii XT based ROG ARES III graphics card which should be ready in time for Computex 2014.

In case you missed them before, Asus launches custom dual-GPU graphics cards under the Mars and Ares names depending on whether they are based on Nvidia or AMD GPUs. Although these are usually somewhat slower than Crossfire or SLI solutions, they do have their own advantages as well.

According to Chinese VR-Zone, Asus is preparing the ROG ARES III graphics card which should be based on two fully enabled Hawaii XT GPUs. This means that we will be looking at a graphics card which will pack a total of 5632 Stream Processors, 352 TMUs and 128 ROPs, since the single Hawaii XT GPU feature 2816 Stream processors, 176 TMUs and 64 ROPs. It also could mean that the new ARES III will have a total of 8GB of GDDR5 memory (4GB per GPU) paired up with a dual 512-bit memory interface.

There have already been some rumors regarding AMD's reference dual-GPU graphics card based on two Hawaii GPUs, codename Vesuvius, which is expected in Q2 2014. Unfortunately, other than the codename, there have not been any solid information regarding the actual specifications of that card.

According to the same report, the Asus ROG ARES III will feature a custom PCB which is quite similar to the ROG ARES II graphics card which featured two Tahiti GPUs.

During a quick check of our favorite search engine we noticed that Asus' CES 2013 pride and joy, also known as the Asus Ares II dual HD 7970 limited edition graphics card, is actually available all over Europe.

Although we are looking at a very impressive dual-GPU graphics card paired up with hefty water-cooling system, the fact that the lowest price is set at €1272,29 in the UK and €1349 in both Germany and Austria, simply makes it a most meaningles graphics card that we have ever seen. Even the Powercolor's limited edition dual HD 7970 Devil13 graphics card is cheaper with a lowest price tag set at €939,84.

Of course, we must mention that you can actually buy two MSI R7970 Lightning Boost Edition 3GB graphics cards at €444,36 a piece (€888,72 for a pair) or even go for Sapphire's Vapor-X HD 7970 GHz Edition 6GB selling for €491,29 a piece (€982,58 for a pair).

Of course, we understand that this is a limited edition card, a collector's dream, but those things do not give it any more meaning.

In any case, if Ares II is just what you were looking for, you certainly will not have any trouble finding it in anywhere in Europe as it appears to be widely available.

Since there will be no new GPUs from Nvidia until next year, EVGA decided to announce its own custom card with two GTX 560 Ti GPUs on a single PCB, the EVGA GTX 560 Ti 2Win.

The card features a custom 11.5-inch PCB with a total of 768 CUDA cores, 384 per GTX 560 Ti GPU, connected together via Nvidia PCIe bridge chip. The card is set to work at 850MHz for each GPU, 1700MHz for shaders, and packs 2GB of GDDR5 memory set at 4008MHz on a dual 256-bit memory interface.

The card is cooled by a custom triple fan cooler that is probably more than enough to keep the both GPUs well cooled. In order to keep both GPUs well fed with power, the card requiers two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The I/O part features three DVI and one mini-HDMI outputs.

The new Geforce GTX 560 Ti 2Win also features a single SLI connector in case someone wants to pair two of these cards for some quad-SLI fun, but according to first reviews, it appears that the connector itself isn't functional due to the fact that Nvidia allows quad-SLI only on its high-end parts.

According to EVGA, the card should end up around 20 percent faster than the GTX 580 (Unigine benchmark) but on the other hand it is also more expensive than the GTX 580. The card is currently available with a price tag set at US $519.99 while you can find EVGA's own GTX 580 for around US $499.99.